Partner Head Mergers & Acquisitions; Head Business Formation and Foreign Investment; Co-Head Banking and Finance; Co-Head Real Estate and Construction
Manila
+63 2 8687 1195
Notable practitioner
Banking and finance
M&A
Rosalia heads the Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Formation & Foreign Investment practice groups. She also co-heads the Banking & Finance and Real Estate and Construction practice groups of the Firm.
Rosalia’s experience in Banking and Finance is attributed to her extensive exposure in the banking and financial sector, having advised a number of banks and financial institutions, including one of the largest global bank, from 1997 to present across various banking law practice areas, including debt restructuring, consumer banking, foreign exchange transactions, credit card operations and credit and security transactions. She has likewise advised a major finance sector organization in the formulation of policies and regulations involving the credit card business.
Rosalia has extensive experience in corporate M&A, corporate reorganization, joint ventures and dissolution. She has handled joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions involving a broad spectrum of industries, including the acquisition of a number of toll roads, real estate, food and manufacturing businesses. She is currently handling acquisitions involving renewable energy and local water treatment and distribution projects. She has likewise recently lectured on the Philippine competition law and regulations under a mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) requirement for lawyers in the Philippines.
In the field of Banking and Finance, Rosalia has over 20 years of experience in acting as counsel to both borrowers and creditors comprising local and foreign banks and financial institutions for financing projects, including loan syndications, project finance, debt restructuring, note issuance and secured financing. She has also extensive experience in consumer financing and related transactions, and has acted for other financial institutions, such as financing companies, investment houses and remittance agents. Rosalia is ranked as a Leading Individual by the Legal 500 in the area of Banking and Finance.
Her recent projects include counselling to a syndicate of local banks for the restructuring and top-up of a Php11.0 billion loan for a toll road project in Northern Philippines, the top-up of the existing Php8.0 Billion syndicated loan financing of the computerization of the land registration system in the Philippines, and as counsel to Therma South, Inc. in its Php24 Billion refinancing facility for its coal-fired plants in Davao. She is currently working on several banking & finance project, including the US$76 million project financing for the construction of tower assets across the country.
Rosalia has been a partner at Martinez Vergara & Gonzalez Sociedad since 2006. Prior to that, she was a partner at Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos. She also acted as the Internal Legal Counsel of Calenergy International Services, Inc. from 2001 to 2002, and was an associate lawyer of Carpio Villaraza & Cruz from 1996 to 1997.
Rosalia is a bar topnotcher ranking 8th Place in the 1996 Bar Examinations. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of the Philippines in 1996. She graduated cum laude at the University of the Philippines in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She is a trained commercial law arbitrator of the Philippine Dispute Resolutions Center, Inc. (PDRCI), and a member of the Tax Management Association of the Philippines (TMAP).
Banking & Finance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Real Estate
Tax